Hope: oncology's missing breakthrough.

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Breakthrough Motif: Dolly the Cloned Ewe Meets Astrid the Hybrid Pig

The 'breakthrough' motif today serves as one of the most pervasive temporal abstractions for describing key events in science and medicine. Of late, it has come to refer to commemorative moments including the introduction of signify unequivocal disjunctures in the overall temporal shape of innovation and science, designating all the major 'steps forward' of grand progress narratives (Lyotard, 1...

Satisfaction with and Perception of Pain Management among Palliative Patients with Breakthrough Pain: A Qualitative Study.

Breakthrough pain is a significant contributor to much suffering by patients. The experience of intense pain may interfere with, and affect, daily life functioning and has major consequences on patients' well-being if it is not well managed. The area of breakthrough pain has not been fully understood. This study thus aimed to explore the experiences of breakthrough pain among palliative patient...

Water Flooding Performance Evaluation Using Percolation Theory

Water flooding is a well-known secondary mechanism for improving oil recovery. Conventional approach to evaluate the performance of a water flooding process (e.g. breakthrough and post breakthrough behavior) is to establish a reliable geological reservoir model, upscale it, and then perform flow simulations. To evaluate the uncertainty in the breakthrough time or post breakthrough behavior, thi...

European Society of Medical Oncology 2016 Congress.

We review several key sessions from the European Society for Medical Oncology's annual congress, including those on emerging immunotherapies for melanoma and non-small-cell lung cancer and on treatments for renal, ovarian, and breast cancer.